Spectroscopic studies on a natural biomarker for the identification of origin and quality of tea extracts for the development of a portable and field deployable prototype

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Even in the era of smart technologies and IoT enabled devices, tea testing technique continues to be a person specific subjective task. In this study, we have employed optical spectroscopy-based detection technique for the quantitative validation of tea quality. In this regard, we have employed the external quantum yield of quercetin at 450 nm (λex = 360 nm), which is an enzymatic product generated by the activity of β-glucosidase on rutin, a naturally occurring metabolite responsible for tea-flavour (quality). We have found that a specific point in a graph representing Optical Density and external Quantum Yield as independent and dependent variables respectively of an aqueous tea extract objectively indicates a specific variety of the tea. A variety of tea samples from various geographical origin have been analysed with the developed technique and found to be useful for the tea quality assessment. The principal component analysis distinctly showed the tea samples originated from Nepal and Darjeeling having similar external quantum yield, while the tea samples from Assam region had a lower external quantum yield. Furthermore, we have employed experimental and computational biology techniques for the detection of adulteration and health benefit of the tea extracts. In order to assure the portability/field use, we have also developed a prototype which confirms the results obtained in the laboratory. We are of the opinion that the simple user interface and almost zero maintenance cost of the device will make it useful and attractive with minimally trained manpower at low resource setting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:299

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Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy - 299(2023) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 122842

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Banerjee, Amrita [VerfasserIn]
Ghosh, Ria [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Soumendra [VerfasserIn]
Adhikari, Aniruddha [VerfasserIn]
Mondal, Susmita [VerfasserIn]
Roy, Lopamudra [VerfasserIn]
Midya, Suman [VerfasserIn]
Mukhopadhyay, Subhadipta [VerfasserIn]
Shyam Chowdhury, Sudeshna [VerfasserIn]
Chakraborty, Subhananda [VerfasserIn]
Das, Ranjan [VerfasserIn]
Al-Fahemi, Jabir H [VerfasserIn]
Moussa, Ziad [VerfasserIn]
Kumar Mallick, Asim [VerfasserIn]
Chattopadhyay, Arpita [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Saleh A [VerfasserIn]
Kumar Pal, Samir [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9IKM0I5T1E
Biomarkers
Journal Article
Origin of tea
Plant Extracts
Quercetin
Spectroscopic device
Tea
Tea adulteration
Tea quality

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Date Completed 05.06.2023

Date Revised 05.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.saa.2023.122842

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357192842